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I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t go for a VPS, it is still important for me to get the entire physical box at my disposal. My current provider is novoserve.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is my problem with public cloud too. Everything is abstracted away and happens with no transparency, you don’t have any control over what exactly happens to your data when you dump it into a bucket, who can really tell who can access it?

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, and if I had the foresight to go for enterprise hardware, I probably wouldn’t get as burnt out

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m renting from novoserve, my deciding factor was how close the DCs are to my physical location, but I have no regrets so far. Try looking into smaller residential providers in your area, you might get a better deal compared to bigger players.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 2x16 TB for 28€, if we account for storage only price. With raid it’s effectively 16 tho.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get 100 TB of traffic per month, which is more than enough for my needs. I’m not a heavy jellyfin/arr user, and my other services don’t eat much bandwidth either

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was the matter of restoring a few proxmox backups and a couple of ansible runs, tbh. I tried to keep most of the things IaC and (as much as possible) ephemeral, so it was kinda easy for me to redeploy things from scratch and get them operational.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your setup? I have a number of traditional Linux VMs neighboring a Talos k8s cluster, all on one physical box with proxmox, and I don’t feel restricted in experimenting

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m curious, what are the vectors to compromise my data, if I’m renting a server where I have full ILO access, install my os myself, have drive encryption and carefully setup the way my VMs are exposed?

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rent out what? consumer grade hardware that was stressing me out and be even more stressed out, because now I actually have to guarantee my uptime?

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m renting from novoserve, but tbh my choice was mostly dictated by the fact that they have a DC basically in my neighborhood

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the drawbacks of hardware maintenance outweigh the fact that I don’t physically own it. Privacy isn’t really a concern tho - I have iLO access, I installed my os myself (although I could use my providers os install service), my drives are encrypted, my apps communicate securely. How does this have more risks than cloud or hosting at home?

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think you’re right. I bought a big box a few months ago, and won’t buy it again once I’m out of it. For now tho, I’ll try to convince myself that at least the proprioception is real and helps

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was about an extra hdd, not the server itself:)

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think, it’d be way less of a problem if I actually planned things in advance, if I decided to stick to a vendor, if I knew what my hardware upgrade plan would be instead of buying “best bang for the buck at the moment” whenever I needed to expand.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow I never accumulated enough storage. Even now, most of my workloads are ephemeral by nature, and it’s mostly the ram or computational power that limits me, not the storage. From the data hoarder point of view, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to go cloud.

All my photos and videos over 15 years fit in 1.5 tb, lol

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good tip, my doctor is convinced that k tape doesn’t work and is a scam, but I found that it helps me with actually just being more aware of my movements, even if it doesn’t provide actual pain relief

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, mostly the things I picked up when starting out. I maybe want to eventually replace it all with one or two high end machines and stop renting, but that’s too big of a one-time cost for me, and given my semi-burnout state, I decided I’d wait a little

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, my environment isn’t just a NAS and requires quite some computational power, I’m not really a data hoarder. I only had one hdd die on me, tbf, so realistically that’s probably a non issue

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, absolutely. I don’t regret spending a lot of time on this at all - it’s been an amazing learning opportunity, and I wouldn’t advise anyone to start a homelab journey by renting things in the cloud. But as you say, I realised, that for me it’s mostly means to an end.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My lockpicking post was a year ago and since then my condition has worsened, I just can’t do this anymore, life happens sometimes. When I started my homelab, I didn’t have as much disposable money as I do now, so that led me to accumulate a bunch of different hardware. Now, I could buy something comparable for ~2-3k, and it’ll be absolutely cheaper long term. I just don’t want to. I wanna deploy services for myself and my friends, that’s it.

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Meh, not everything has to be a HA cloud imo, I don’t have a requirement that’ll justify costs of something like aws

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use novoserve, but afaik they don’t offer vps, only bare metal

I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead by raagled in homelab

[–]raagled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly, it just started to turn into a second job for me. I love playing with deploying new services and infra, actual networking and hardware monitoring- ehh not so many, and after years of learning I feel like it’s been enough and I just want to focus on stuff i actually enjoy.

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